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Latest Food Sustainability Videos

We’ve compiled a selection of videos about recent food news including organic living, starting a winter garden, and the cost of cheap food. Have another favorite you’d like to include? Leave a comment below!

Novella Carpenter started small, with some plants in an empty lot next to her house in Oakland. A couple of years later, she was tending to a full-blown farm, with goats, turkeys, ducks, pigs, and a robust garden.

Dr. Bill Chameides, dean of Duke University’s environmental school and lead blogger of www.thegreengrok.com, gives tips on how to fight global warming by retooling your trips to the grocery store.

Help fight the dark side of the farm.

The benefits of eating locally.

There are far too many ways to be green for anyone to tell you how to do it. The only way is to understand the problems that we face so you can make intelligent decisions for yourself, be informative to your friends, and help promote and create the solutions that will truly allow this world to become sustainable.

Why is getting involved important?

Food is not only a trillion dollar industry in the United States with its own marketing, advertising, campaigns, lobbyists and political stances from the far left to the far right; food is also what we eat, what nourishes us, what sustains us. We literally could not live without it. At the same time, food can also be responsible for leaving us sick, diseased or even dead. It is vital that we as consumers and/or producers understand exactly how we get our food and where it is from. It is only through educating ourselves that we will be able to make food choices that will keep us healthy and ensure a food supply that will continue to feed generations to come. It is only through making informed decisions that we can influence the food industry to adopt sustainable, food safe practices. Here on this page, we hope to provide you with a starting point on what we can do to secure a sustainable future.

The 3rd weekend in January marked the first ever AgChat Foundation National Collegiate Congress, an event focused on communicating farmers’ and ranchers’ stories to the consumer in a positive, memorable way.

When you’re trying to grow organically, it can take some time. That’s the case with Spokane’s newest brewery, Black Label – committed to sustainability, from the ingredients it uses to its energy practices – which opened at the end of January.

I like the dietary guidelines report very much, as someone with no food to peddle, but who tries to pedal hard uphill every day to advance the cause of public health. They point out, correctly as best I can tell, that dietary cholesterol does, indeed, tend to raise blood cholesterol levels, and perhaps heart disease risk, against the backdrop of an optimized vegan diet. But the Dietary …

Water Footprint – A look at the amount of water used to produce many common food items. One can also calculate their own water footprint.

Farmer Goes to Market – Works to bring together farmers and retailers to help eliminate misinformation along the distribution chain. FoodSense participants Anne Burkholder and Liz Doornink attended the 2009 concept show.

Green Grok – Dr. Bill Chameides, dean of the Duke Environmental Program at the Nicholas School, keeps this blog about the causes of environmental change and identifies pathways towards a more sustainable future.

Slow Food – Seeks to create dramatic and lasting change in the food system by working both on connecting consumers to the roots of their food and changing food policy.

Eat Local Challenge – A group weblog focusing on the importance of locally and sustainably grown food

Sustainable Agriculture Standard – Group working towards developing a standard by which all agricultural crops can be measured to determine whether it has been produced and handled in a sustainable manner.

Sustainability Calculators – Links to many different calculators, from determining the environmental cost of your daily commute to your electricity use to how many calories you yourself burn each day.

Ecoliteracy – Supports and advances education for sustainable living, most specifically within the school system.

Simple Steps – A site put together by the Natural Resources Defense Foundation to provide consumers with a wide array of news, information and tips on living better and more sustainably.

World Changing – Covers the world’s most innovative solutions to the planet’s problems, and inspires readers around the world with stories of new tools, models and ideas for building a bright green future.

Grist – Dishing out environmental news and commentary with a wry twist.

Breathing Earth – Real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates.